I am writing these post by using “PowerShell Studio 2012”, but logic behind it is same.

As in GUI we are going to use Button, labels etc, and the functionality of these are same, in spite of how you are creating them.

Creating Form.

To create a new blank form,

1. Open PowerShell studio

2. Click on “New”

3. And click on “New Form”

4.

5. It will show you few templates, choose one as per you need.

6. I am selecting “Empty Form”. And Click on “Select”

7.

Form

Now, You, will see 3 screens, one is containing “Toolbox” which contain all graphic elements, in middle we have our new black form, and the third one the “Properties” windows. If you click any element, properties windows shows that element’s properties.

Customise form.

Now, let’s customize our form.

Changing form name.

To change the name of the form, click on the form, and in the property window , you see the “Text” field and in the front of it, you will see the value of the form, change is as per your need.

I am changing the value to “My First Form”.

You can see that the name of the form is changed.

Setting Transparency.

Sometime, you may want to look you form fancy, and a little bit transparent, to set the transparency of the form , we use the “Opacity” field of the form properties, by default it is set to 100%. You can set it you any values below 100% as per your needs.

I am changing the opacity of the form to 50%

Now run the file and you can see how transparent our form became.

Keep your form always to the top.

If you want to keep your GUI form, always on the top of the other windows, change the “Top Most” value to “false” to ”true”.

Changing form background.

Changing background colour.

To change the background colour for the form, click on “BackColor” under “Appearance” tab and and choose the colour which you like to have in you form.

Using image as background.

We can also use the image as background, , under “appearance” tab, click on “BackgroundImage”, and click on browse icon, and select the image which you want to use as background image.

Choose the image and click on “Open”

Now you can see that background image is set, and you can also set the “background image layout” to “Tile,Center,Stretch,zoom” by clicking on “BackgroundImageLayout” field properties.

In my previous post, we do the Post-Install configuration task for the DHCP Server. Now it’s time to configure the DHCP Sever Scope. We can going to do the below configuration.

Configuration.

DHCP Configuration

Name

ID

IP Address Scope

192.168.1.100

192.168.1.200

DNS Server

6

Gateway

3

192.168.1.99

Domain Name

15

Amandhally.net

Subnet Mask

255.255.255.0

We configure our DHCP server to give us the automatic IP Address from Range 192.168.1.100 to 192.168.1.200. Subnet mask is “255.255.255.0” our Gateway’s IP Address is 192.168.1.99 and the IP Address of our DNS Server is “192.168.1.99”, and as a domain name for DHCP IP, I am using amandhally.net.

Scope

Before setting scopes, I want to bind the specific LAN card for DHCP Server ( as I have 2 LAN cards on my server), I don’t want to run DHCP server service on all of My LAN Cards, to do that, I can use “Set-DhcpServerv4Binding” cmdlet.

You can see I have 2 Ethernet cards on my machine, and I want to run the DHCP server on the LAN card named as “for_dhcp”.

Note: I renamed this LAN card manually, from “Local Area Network” to “for_dhcp”.

Now run the below command.

Set-DhcpServerv4Binding -InterfaceAlias "for_dhcp"-BindingState $true

Once it done, let cross check it by running the Get-DhcpServerv4Binding cmdlet.

Perfect, the Ethernet is bind.

Setting Scope.

Now, we have to set a scope for the DHCP Server, so that he can start giving us the IP addresses.

$nameScope='DHCP Delhi'

$startIP='192.168.1.100'

$endIP='192.168.1.200'

$subnetMask='255.255.255.0'

For my ease, I set my settings is variable, so that is easy to change later on {idea for scripting } , and save them as a script file for later use.

Above, I am setting the name of the scope to “DHCP Delhi” and the DHCP server start leasing the IP Address from “192.168.1.100” to end IP address of “192.168.1.200”. and my subnet mask will be “255.255.255.0”.

We have to set all of above using the “Add-DhcpServerv4Scope” cmdlet.

Now, Once you set the variable, run the below command. By using –State parameter to True, we are making this scope active.

Once the above command run successfully, open your DHCP Server Manager and you can see that we have a new scope and that scope it Active.

Even our DHCP Sever is started giving the address to other laptop on the network too.

And I run Ipconfig /releaseand then Ipconfig /renewon another laptop and he gets the IP address from our server too.

Now, when you open the console, you can see our DHCP Server has given 2 ips to the computers.

Great J Isnt’

Till, now , we are successfully able to get the IP address on client system from our DHCP Server, But we won’t able to connect to Internet or other services, until we configure the Router and DNS options in the DHCP Server,

Thursday, January 16, 2014

Doing Post-Install Configuration tasks

In my previous post, we go through the steps for installing the DHCP Server role on our windows server 2012. In this post we are going to do the DHCP Post Configuration tasks, which contains two steps for a standalone (Workgroup) server.

1.Creating Security Groups

a.DHCP Administrators

b.DHCP Users

2.Supressing the post-install configuration alert.

Note: I am running a non-domain server, which is just a standalone workgroup computer, if you want to do post-installation configuration on domain joined server, than the few steps are different as per compared to the workgroup server.

After installing the DHCP server roles, we have to complete the DHCP Server Post installation tasks.

So, when you open the server manager console, you will see the below warning error, “Configuration required for DHCP Server at DHCP-Server1.

When you click on it, it will ask you to complete an action to Complete DHCP Configuration.

When you click on “Complete DHCP configuring”, you will see that it will ask to create 2 Security groups, one is “DHCP Administrators” and another one is “DHCP Users”.

Now Click on Cancel, yes on Canceland go back to our PowerShell Console.

As, I told you before, that we will try to configure DHCP Server using PowerShell as much as we can.

Note : With Server 2012 R2, you can use the Add-DHCPServerSecurityGroup to add the two groups.No need to manually add them using ADSI! (Thanks to Sir Thomas Lee for suggestions.

Now, run the below script and then open Local users and Groups.

# Creating a group for DHCP Server

# This Step is required for WorkGroup only server,

# If your server is joined to the Domain, this steps are not valid.

$objectOU= [ADSI]"WinNT://$env:COMPUTERNAME"

$group=$objectOU.Create("Group","DHCP Users")

$group.CommitChanges()

$groupAdmin=$objectOU.Create("Group","DHCP Administrators")

$groupAdmin.CommitChanges()

Once you run the above script, you, can see that desired groups are created.

But, when you open Server Manager Console again you will see the same error again.

To supress this error, we need to change a registry settings, and then we need to restart the DHCP Server Service.

Run the below command to change the Registry value, to change the registry value, run the below command.